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What's Your Superpower?
What’s your superpower?I’m not talking about reading minds, flying, or - my personal
favorite - teleportation. The power that all of us have, and that we can choose
to use, is the power to help.When I was a school counselor giving guidance lessons for
elementary-school children, this was a fun lesson to give. My office walls
would be filled with paper superheroes that the students colored and cut out.
We would talk about how we all have personal power, and we choose whether we
want to help
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Nov 10th 2021
Domestic Violence: Statistics, Red Flags, Effects on Children, and What to Do If You Suspect Abuse
In The Good, the Bad, and the Backstory, we learn about how
Ryan’s mom dealt with an abusive relationship and how she finally was able to
leave. Another character in the book, Andrew, has a volatile relationship with
his father. He never knows what to expect - what’s going to set his dad off - and
he regularly witnesses his father treating his mother poorly. For Domestic
Violence Awareness Month this October, let’s look at intimate partner violence:
some statistics, red flags, the
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Oct 27th 2021
The Good, the Bad, and the Backstory
What if you could know both sides of the story? What if you could know the “why” and not just the “what”?I spent quite a bit of my youth feeling insecure and jealous of my sister. The adults in our lives compared us, and I seemed to fall short. To my young brain, she was the favored child in the family. I took my anger out on her, which did not earn me the daughter-of-the-year award. Then the most important person in my life died: our father. I was seven and did not understand what death actuall
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Mar 3rd 2021